15 December, 2014

Kirkland & Ellis represented Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse, JPMorgan and China Renaissance as underwriters in the US$248 million initial public offering of American depositary shares on NASDAQ of Momo Inc., a leading Chinese mobile social network company. The listing took place on December 11, 2014.

Beijing-based Momo, which is backed by Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s investment arm, is a mobile-based social networking platform with over 180 million users that utilizes location-based features to connect users.

The Kirkland team was led by Hong Kong corporate partners David Zhang and Ben James.

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